You will only get the number after you fetched all neccesary records (but then you could count the rows also :-( )
I don't know of any method that can do this efficient without running the query twice.

@minichicken
The ora_numrows will only tell you how many rows you have fetched already. You will only get the correct result after you fetched all records. If you fetched 5 record ora_numrows will return 5, after you fetch another 5 rows it will return 10, ...

the Oracle 7 - functions should no longer be used as they are not realy supported and as andrew67 stated hi is aready using the oci8 interface (ocirowcount)

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